NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/alt/native/1759

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From: [e-mail] (Gary S. Trujillo)
Subject: Re: Comments on the 2nd RFD: soc.culture.native
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 04:38:47 GMT
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail]
    (Karleen S. Davis) writes:

> [e-mail] writes:

> >...The charter has
> >to be narrow enough for this group to find its own traffic and not pull
> >traffic from the already existing soc.culture.* groups.

> Add a clause to the charter stating that soc.culture.native is for all
> native peoples as described UNLESS there is another more specific
> newsgroup for a certain people, and then go on to mention an example
> like soc.culture.african...

This proposed solution sounds as if it might be able to deal with Brian's
objections.  However, I feel that certain issues which pertain even to
regions like Asia and Africa would be appropriate for soc.culture.native.
For example, the Ainu indigenous people of Japan, and certain tribal
groups in Africa certainly have a lot in common with indigenous peoples
from other parts of the world, so I feel that the mere fact of there
already being a newsgroup to deal with some specific region should not
be cause to dis-invite a given discussion from soc.culture.native.  My
hunch is that newsgroups like soc.culture.{africa,asia} would tend to
be dominated by discussions concerning rather general topics about those
places, and not specifically with the kinds of things that get talked
about in alt.native at present.  My point is that soc.culture.native has
the potential and promise of being a forum where conversations about
subjects pertaining to various indigenous peoples all over the planet
can take place, so there is no good reason I can see to exclude consid-
eration of issues pertaining to a given place solely on grounds of there
being a pre-existing newsgroup that deals with some certain part of the
world.  However, I would not consider it appropriate to bring up subjects
of politics or general culture concerning any region unless it relates
specifically to the lives and cultures of the original inhabitants of
the place, and I think that feature of an article should be the deciding
factor in deciding whether or not it is appropriate for the newsgroup.

Comments?

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    Gary S. Trujillo                            [e-mail]
Somerville, Massachusetts              {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst